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Noninvasive cardiac output by partial CO2 rebreathing after severe chest trauma
R. A. Maxwell, J. B. Gibson, J. B. Slade, T. C. Fabian, Kenneth G Proctor
Background: In multiple trauma patients, early continuous cardiac output (CCO) monitoring is frequently desired but is difficult to routinely employ in most emergency departments because it requires invasive procedures. Recently, a noninvasive cardiac output (NICO) technique based on the Fick principle and partial CO2 rebreathing has shown promise under a variety of conditions. Since this method has not been tested after lung damage, we evaluated its utility in a clinically relevant model. Methods: Anesthetized, ventilated swine (n = 11, 35-45 kg) received a unilateral blunt trauma via a captive bolt gun followed by a 25% hemorrhage. After 60 min of shock, crystalloid resuscitation was given as needed to maintain heart rate < 100 beats/min and mean arterial pressure > 70 mm Hg. Standard CCO by thermodilution (Baxter Vigilance, Irvine, CA) was compared with NICO (Novametrix Medical Systems Inc., Wallingford, CT) for 8 hr. Results: The severity of the injury is reflected by seven deaths (average survival time = 4.25 hr). Trauma increased dead space ventilation (19%), airway resistance (30%), and lactate (3.2 mmol/L), and decreased dynamic compliance (48%) and PaO2/F1O2 (54%). In these extreme conditions, the time course and magnitude of change of CCO and NICO were superimposed. Bland-Altman analysis reveal a bias and precision of 0.01 ± 0.69 liters/min. The linear relationship between individual CCO and NICO values was significant (p < 0.0001) and was described by the equation NICO = (0.74 ± 0.1)CCO + (0.65 ± 0.16 liters/min) but the correlation coefficient (r2 = 0.541) was relatively low. The cause for the low correlation could not be attributed to increased pulmonary shunt, venous desaturation, anemia, hypercapnia, increased dead space ventilation, or hyperlactacidemia. Conclusion: NICO correlated with thermodilution CCO, but underestimated this standard by 26% in extreme laboratory conditions of trauma-induced cardiopulmonary dysfunction; 95% of the NICO values fall within 1.38 liters/min of CCO; and with further improvements, NICO may be useful in multiple trauma patients requiring emergency intubation during initial assessment and workup.
Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care
Thermodilution
Multiple Trauma
Airway Resistance
Hypercapnia
Fick principle
Noninvasive cardiac output monitoring
Pulmonary contusion
Maxwell, R. A., Gibson, J. B., Slade, J. B., Fabian, T. C., & Proctor, K. G. (2001). Noninvasive cardiac output by partial CO2 rebreathing after severe chest trauma. Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care, 51(5), 849-853.
Noninvasive cardiac output by partial CO2 rebreathing after severe chest trauma. / Maxwell, R. A.; Gibson, J. B.; Slade, J. B.; Fabian, T. C.; Proctor, Kenneth G.
In: Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care, Vol. 51, No. 5, 17.12.2001, p. 849-853.
Maxwell, RA, Gibson, JB, Slade, JB, Fabian, TC & Proctor, KG 2001, 'Noninvasive cardiac output by partial CO2 rebreathing after severe chest trauma', Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 849-853.
Maxwell RA, Gibson JB, Slade JB, Fabian TC, Proctor KG. Noninvasive cardiac output by partial CO2 rebreathing after severe chest trauma. Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care. 2001 Dec 17;51(5):849-853.
Maxwell, R. A. ; Gibson, J. B. ; Slade, J. B. ; Fabian, T. C. ; Proctor, Kenneth G. / Noninvasive cardiac output by partial CO2 rebreathing after severe chest trauma. In: Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care. 2001 ; Vol. 51, No. 5. pp. 849-853.
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Senior cagers and cheerleaders were honored Tuesday by host Woodward-Granger between WCAC games with AC/GC. Photo courtesy W-G schools.
WOODWARD — Senior Night was celebrated at Woodward-Granger Tuesday, with the hosts capturing a pair of WCAC wins over AC/GC.
The Hawk girls (10-11, 6-9) pulled away in the final minutes with strong shooting from the foul line for a 46-36 win over the Chargers (9-12, 6-9), with W-G (15-4, 13-3) using some long-range accuracy to fuel a 72-32 win over AC/GC (5-15, 2-13) in the nightcap.
W-G reached double-digit in wins for the first time in four seasons with their victory. The hosts led, 21-14, at the intermission and owned a 30-24 lead entering the fourth quarter.
AC/GC closed to within 30-26 with six minutes to play and were within 40-36 with three minutes remaining, but W-G scored the last six points of the game to seal the win.
W-G was 20-of-30 at the free throw line while AC/GC was 14-of-20. The Hawks sank 13-of-20 from the stripe in the second half, with Emma Anderson (12-of-15) and Kayley Dresback (4-of-5) combining for 16-of-20 shooting down the stretch to cement the victory.
Chloe Largent did her part for the guests, scoring 14 of her 16 points after the intermission, a stretch in which she was 8-of-11 at the line.
Anderson led all scorers with 22 points, with Dresback adding 14, Natalie Helbling seven and Katelyn Scharlau three.
Jorga Hoover had seven points for AC/GC, with Kennedy Young adding four points and Jadeyn Carrick three, with Sierra O'Brien, Kylie Young and Genevieve Hoover two points apiece. Largent had nine rebounds, four steals and three blocks, with Carrick and Genevieve Hoover pulling in six boards apiece.
W-G sped to an 18-8 lead after eight minutes of play in the boys game, with the halftime score standing at 37-16. A 21-7 third quarter pushed the Hawks into a 58-23 advantage with one frame remaining.
The Hawks finished 9-of-11 from the foul line while sinking 9-of-14 3-pointers. Junior Keith Braunschweig remained red-hot from long range, burying 5-of-5 beyond arc. He has hit his last eight 3-pointers, and his gunnery fed a team-high 22 point effort.
Noah Hoyt had 19 points and Bryce Achenbach 12, with Alex Bice adding nine points, Nick Buch four, with Kaya Bowlsby and Dylan Backe three points apiece. Achenbach had eight rebounds and four assists, Hoyt distributed four assists and Buch had five boards.
No statistics were available from the AC/GC boys.
W-G was a 32-30 winner in the Jan. 4 girls game between the two, with the Hawks winning, 68-48, in the first meeting.
Dresback and Lisa Pitman were honored as the two seniors on the girls squad, with Hoyt and Sam Peterson the two boys squad seniors.


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Archaeologists Looking At Stonehenge In A New Light
by Sean McLachlan on Sep 3, 2013
Stonehenge is the world's most iconic prehistoric monument. Scientists have argued about its significance for generations, but few have been allowed to excavate there. Archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson is one of those lucky few, and he's documented his finds in a new book.
Stonehenge: A New Understanding chronicles a seven-year excavation of Stonehenge and the surrounding countryside.
Pearson and his team took an innovative approach and came up with some innovative interpretations. Instead of looking at Stonehenge as an isolated monument, they studied the landscape and other prehistoric monuments around it. This led them to determine that Stonehenge was part of a ritualistic network of monuments and natural features.
But what was it all for? Pearson believes that despite the astronomical alignments and the regular meetings of people at Stonehenge, it was not a monument to nature or the seasons or fertility as many archaeologists have concluded, but rather a monument to the dead, similar to other enclosed cremations burial grounds in the British Isles. Other constructions nearby were symbols of life and were intimately connected to Stonehenge just as the concepts of life and death are intimately connected with each other.
The main connection is with a site called Durrington Walls, two miles away from Stonehenge. Both had avenues leading to a nearby river. Durrington Walls, however, had a settlement while Stonehenge only had burials. Natural features in the landscape aligned with important astronomical events, making the location of Stonehenge perfect for any monument concerned with the heavens.
Weighing in at 350 dense pages, this is not for the casually interested reader. Luckily Pearson has a clear writing style, avoids getting overly technical, and the book is richly illustrated with maps and photographs that help the reader follow the text. I would suggest this to anyone with a serious interest in archaeology and science.
I had the good fortune to hear Dr. Pearson talk a few years ago to a packed auditorium at Oxford University. Once he was done, Oxford professors gathered around in their self-important way to talk with this leading scientist. Before they could start posturing, a twelve-year-old girl came up to him and chirped, "I want to be an archaeologist!"
Dr. Pearson could have patted her on the head, replied, "That's nice darling" and gone on to speak with the professors, but he didn't. Instead he sat her down and spoke with her for a good five minutes about what she needed to do to become an archaeologist and all the fun she could have in that career.
The professors looked ruffled and impatient. The girl left glowing with enthusiasm.
That's my kind of scientist.
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Prehistoric Tombs And Viking Graffiti In Orkney, Scotland
by Sean McLachlan on Jul 26, 2012
There's something about death.
Graveyards, war memorials, mummified monks, Purgatory Museums … if there's dead people involved, I'm there. That's why my 6-year-old son found himself crawling through prehistoric tombs with his dad on remote Scottish islands for his summer vacation.
He loved it, of course. He still has that wonderful sense of adventure children should keep into adulthood. Plus he wasn't scared in the least. It's hard to fear death when you assume it doesn't apply to you. My wife is a bit claustrophobic and so is less into this sort of thing. She prefers stone circles, although she gamely explored the tombs with her crazy husband and son.
What appealed to him, and me, was the spooky, silent darkness of these prehistoric tombs and the strange texture of the stones. That's why I love this photo by Paddy Patterson. It shows the Tomb of the Eagles on the Orkney island of South Ronaldsay just off the north coast of Scotland. This image highlights the almost fleshy texture of the rock and the dank, dark interior.
Orkney is full of Neolithic tombs. As I mentioned in my previous post in this series, Orkney was home to a flourishing Stone Age culture 5,000 years ago. These people buried their dead in large subterranean tombs with several side chambers that were reused over several generations. The Tomb of the Eagles was one of the biggest and gets its name from the many eagle bones found inside.
Our visit started at the museum nearby, where a docent passed around artifacts found at the site and showed us the skulls of the people buried there. Life was hard back then and those who survived childhood rarely made it past their 30s. One woman's skull showed an abscess the size of marble. Strangely, it never got infected. Her teeth showed signs of wear consistent with chewing on leather, a crude but effective way of softening it up for use. Since the traditional method of curing leather required soaking it in urine, and urine is a natural disinfectant, perhaps her abscess never got infected because she was chewing on urine-soaked leather all day. The good old days? I think not.
%Gallery-161068%While the museum was great, I must admit I was a bit disappointed by the tomb itself. It was unprofessionally excavated by a local farmer who tore off the entire roof to get inside. Now it's been covered with a concrete cap that reduces the whole effect. Hopefully someone will provide the funds to restore the roof someday.
A much smaller but almost perfectly preserved tomb is Cuween Hill on Orkney Mainland. Overlooking the road between Kirkwall and Finstown, it has a central chamber and four side chambers. My son and I had to crawl inside through a tiny entrance passage. When we got there, we found someone had lit candles at the entrances to each of the side chambers.
"Why did they do that?" my son asked.
"Because they're respecting the ancestors," I replied. "Leave them alone. We're going to respect their respect."
"OK," he replied. "Just don't burn yourself when you crawl over them."
My son knows me well enough to know that a little bit of fire won't stop me from exploring an ancient tomb.
What struck me about this tomb was how well it was made. There was no mortar; it was simply made from rectangular slabs of rock cleverly stacked atop one another to form arches, doorways and passages. A lot of care went into their final resting place.
Besides human remains, archaeologists discovered 24 dog skulls in Cuween Hill, prompting witty locals to call it the "Tomb of the Beagles." Another tomb had otter bones. Perhaps each group had their own communal tomb and totem animal.
Orkney's most famous Neolithic tomb is Maeshowe. Built around 2700 B.C. within sight of two stone circles and at least two major settlements, it appeared as a massive artificial hill 30 meters (100 feet) around and 11 meters (36 feet) high. It was surrounded by a ditch and earthen embankment, something also found around many stone circles.
Entering through a long, low passageway, we soon were able to stand and admire a central chamber fashioned much the same way as Cuween Hill but on a much grander scale. The passageway was acted as more than an entrance. For a few days around the midwinter solstice, the setting sun shines through the passage and onto the back wall. If you don't want to brave the Orkney winter, you can watch it on a webcam.
Maeshowe's walls are covered in Viking graffiti. According to the Orkneyinga Saga, on Christmas Day 1153, a group of Vikings were making their way to a nearby port in order to sail off to the Crusades. A sudden storm blew up and the Vikings broke into the tomb to find shelter. To pass the time, they wrote runes on the walls. Most of these are prosaic, like "Tryggr carved these runes." One fellow showed off by writing in two rare styles of Runic. Those who could read it were rewarded with the boast, "These runes were carved by the man most skilled in runes in the western ocean."
Another hints at a buried treasure: "Crusaders broke into Maeshowe. Lif the earl's cook carved these runes. To the north-west is a great treasure hidden. It was long ago that a great treasure was hidden here. Happy is he that might find that great treasure. Hakon alone bore treasure from this mound," signed "Simon Sirith."
For a complete listing of the graffiti, check this link.
Don't miss the rest of my series, "Exploring Orkney: Scotland's Rugged Northern Isles."
Coming up next: "Shapinsay: Visiting A Wee Scottish Island!"
The Heart Of Neolithic Orkney
For reasons that aren't very clear, the Orkney Islands just north of Scotland were the happening place to be 5000 years ago.
The temperature was warmer in Orkney back then, with forest and deer in addition to the abundant bird and marine life that still mark Orkney out as a natural wonderland. The Neolithic (Late Stone Age) people farmed the land and hunted game. They also built some of the most remarkable prehistoric monuments in Europe.
The photo above shows the Standing Stones of Stenness, a stone circle built around 3100 B.C., making it one of the earliest of the 1000 stone circles in the UK and roughly contemporary with the earliest building phase of Stonehenge. It was once made up of about a dozen massive yet thin slabs, but now only four remain standing. Several lone standing stones stood in the surrounding area.
Many legends and traditions grew up around the stones. One stone, called the Odin Stone after the Norse god, had a hole near its base. Young Orcadian couples used to promise themselves in marriage by clasping their hands through it. A local farmer got so sick of these happy couples trespassing on his land that he knocked the stone down in 1814, with the intention of taking the rest down too. The Orcadians were furious and the farmer wisely stopped destroying the stones.
Like many stone circles, the Standing Stones of Stenness was surrounded by a ditch and earthen palisade. The opening led to a nearby village of the same date called the Barnhouse settlement. Here archaeologists uncovered 15 round stone houses. The rooms have stone furniture and little recesses for beds. They also have fireplaces made up of four stone slabs. One of them seems to have been moved from here to the center of the Standing Stones of Stenness. Why? Nobody knows.
%Gallery-160972%Less than a mile away across a narrow isthmus between two lochs stands the Ring of Brodgar, a massive stone circle measuring 104 meters (340 feet) in diameter. The only stone circles bigger than it are Avebury and Stanton Drew in England. Twenty-seven stones still exist, and archaeologists have found evidence for a total of sixty.
The Ring of Brodgar was built between 2500 and 2000 B.C. and is the youngest of the great Neolithic monuments in the area. Like the Standing Stones of Stenness, it was surrounded by a ditch that would have been filled with water, thus making a symbolic "island" like the real ones these people lived on.
A couple of minutes walk away, archaeologists have discovered an impressive Neolithic settlement made up of large stone buildings. The largest, rather unromantically called Structure Ten, measures 25×20 meters (82×65 feet) with 5-meter (16-foot) thick walls. This is by far the largest Neolithic stone building found in Britain.
Called the Ness of Brodgar, this settlement was inhabited from about 3,200 to 2,300 B.C. Each of the buildings was used for a time and then covered over. Structure Ten got special treatment. There seems to have been a big feast there as a grand finale, with the bones of some 300 cattle deposited at the same time, as well as a complete skeleton of a red deer, which seems to have been simply left there and not eaten. You can read more about the Ness of Brodgar excavations on their blog. New information is being uncovered every day.
So the dates of the two stone circles and two settlements show there was about a thousand years of activity in this area. Archaeologists believe that it was a ritual focal point for all of Orkney and maybe even for people in more distant lands.
On the Bay of Skaill, on the western shores of Mainland, is the Neolithic village of Skara Brae. The eight structures are similar to the Barnhouse site but on a much grander scale. Each has a large square room, beds to the sides, a central hearth and a stone "dresser." These shelves of stone have caused all sorts of debate among archaeologists. Some think they were simply for storing things, while others suggest ritual use. The buildings were connected by covered passageways.
Skara Brae was occupied from about 3200-2500 B.C., the same period as the other great Neolithic sites. Before Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids, Mainland Orkney developed a great and little-known civilization.
The prehistoric sites on the Orkney Mainland are collectively known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney and are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Beyond those mentioned here, the UNESCO listing includes many tombs, including the impressive Maeshowe. More on them tomorrow!
A great resource on all things Orcadian is the Orkneyjar website, which has a seemingly endless supply of articles on the history, archaeology, culture and folklore of Orkney. Highly recommended!
Don't miss the rest of my series "Exploring Orkney: Scotland's Rugged Northern Isles."
Coming up next: "Prehistoric Tombs and Viking Graffiti in Orkney!"
Vandals Break Stone of Destiny, Sacred To High Kings Of Ireland
by Sean McLachlan on Jun 18, 2012
Ireland's famed Lia Fáil Standing Stone, better known as the "Stone of Destiny," has been vandalized.
The stone, which stands upon the Hill of Tara in County Meath, was smashed with a hammer on all four sides. Chips broke off from it but were not found, suggesting that the culprits took them.
The stone is the traditional coronation site for the ancient High Kings of Ireland, semi-mythical rulers about whom little is known for certain. The last king was supposed to have been crowned there around the year 500 A.D. The stone was said to be magical and when the rightful king touched it, the stone would roar in approval.
The stone is a menhir, or lone standing stone, dating back to the Neolithic some 5,500 years ago. Many megalithic monuments such as menhirs and stone circles were seen as magical by later cultures.
This is the latest of several acts of vandalism against ancient sites. Unrest in Syria has led to destruction and looting of archaeological sites. In Israel, a 1,600-year-old synagogue mosaic was wrecked by ultra-orthodox Jews. Then there are the oil pipelines passing through Babylon in Iraq.
At this rate of ignorance and greed, there won't be any ancient sites left for our grandkids to admire.
[Photo courtesy Andrew Dietz]
Megalithic site discovered in India
by Sean McLachlan on Dec 13, 2011
The term "megalithic" generally brings to mind stone circles in the British Isles such as Stonehenge and Avebury, or giant tombs such as Wayland's Smithy, yet prehistoric peoples in many parts of the world erected megalithic monuments.
India is rich in megalithic sites. In Cherrapunji, Meghalaya, India, are some imposing menhirs, or standing stones, shown in the Wikimedia Commons image above. In the Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh is a site with more than 80 menhirs, some 14 feet tall, plus numerous smaller stones. Some rows of stones are aligned to the rising and setting Sun on the summer and winter solstices and equinoxes. Also at the site is a map of the constellation Ursa Major (the Big Dipper, which points to the all-important North Star).
Now a new megalithic site has been discovered. Road construction in Chatra district, Jharkhand, has revealed numerous tall menhirs. Artifacts found at the site, such as a small copper ring and copper bell, date to the Chalcolithic ("Copper Age") or 3300-1200 BC, although this has been disputed and officially the Archaeological Survey of India is dating the site to the 7th century AD.
Sadly the road work destroyed several stones, and others have been removed by local villagers. Now archaeologists are trying to educate the locals about the importance of such sites. The researchers are also hoping for an excavation license to figure out just how old the megaliths are.
For more on India's ancient past, check out this extensive website on megalithic India.

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Todd Dulaney Returns with New Live Album
GRAMMY-nominated artist, Todd Dulaney, has returned with all-new music inspired spontaneously by the written word of God through his highly anticipated live album Anthems & Glory available wherever music is sold and streamed digitally. Recorded live at All Nations Worship Assembly in Chicago, this new body of music finds Dulaney leading listeners back to the scriptures for hope, comfort, answers, instructions, and everything to live life according to the Bible. Anthems & Glory features a collective of 17 tracks and a stellar line-up of featured artists that include Kierra Sheard, David Wilford, Tamela Mann, and others. Chicago native Dulaney has delivered some of the biggest worship anthems of the past decade with No. 1 singles, "You're Doing It All Again," "Your Great Name" and "Psalm 18." Throughout the past few years, he has been recognized for his dedication and musical prowess among his peers. A[…] Source
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NBA Odds: Tuesday, March 29 2016 Opening Line Report and Handicapping
by Alan Matthews - 3/28/2016
The Los Angeles Clippers now know when they will get Blake Griffin back from his broken hand and quad injury: April 3. Griffin has been cleared medically but first must serve a four-game suspension because he broke that hand while punching out a member of the team's equipment staff outside a Toronto restaurant earlier this season. The Clippers have played well without Griffin, but anyone who says they are better without him doesn't know basketball. Could the Clips perhaps trade him this offseason if they flame out in the playoffs again? It's possible. The Clips really have nothing to play for the rest of the regular season other than to get Griffin re-integrated. They are going to finish No. 4 in the West and probably host the Grizzlies in the first round. That's a great matchup for the Clippers since the Grizz are without Marc Gasol and might not have Mike Conley back for the postseason. Griffin will have seven regular-season games to get back into game shape. That should be enough time.
Bulls at Pacers (TBA)
Chicago hosted Atlanta on Monday; the team aired out some grievances among the players and coaches following a really bad loss in Orlando on Saturday. Something is not right in that locker room. Indiana beat Houston 104-101 on Sunday behind 25 points from Paul George and 23 from Monta Ellis. Chicago leads the season series with Indiana 2-1. Those two wins are by a combined three points. The Bulls lost by 12 in Indianapolis on Nov. 27.
Key trends: The Bulls are 1-6 against the spread in the past seven meetings. The "over/under" has gone under in five of the past six meetings.
Early lean: TBA because the Bulls have a few banged-up players, but they were all expected to play Monday. Might not do both. Like Indiana by double digits here.
Nets at Magic (TBA)
Brooklyn was in Miami on Monday. Orlando beat Chicago 111-89 on Saturday to end a six-game losing streak. Dewayne Dedmon had a career-high 18 points and season-high 13 rebounds. The Magic were without leading scorers Nikola Vucevic and Victor Oladipo; both practiced on Monday and Oladipo is at least likely to play here. Orlando looks for the four-game sweep. Brooklyn hasn't topped 93 points in any of the first meetings. And it still had Joe Johnson for all those.
Key trends: The Nets are 2-6 ATS in the past eight meetings. The under is 4-1 in Orlando's past five overall.
Early lean: Wait on that Magic duo.
Hornets at 76ers (+10, 210.5)
Charlotte won in Milwaukee 115-91 on Saturday. Nic Batum had 25 points, 23 of those in the first half. That was a career high for any half. Marvin Williams, who has been hampered by an ankle injury, had 21 points. Philly was a 21.5-point dog Sunday at Golden State but covered in a 117-105 defeat, the team's ninth straight loss. It was the second-largest spread in an NBA game in the past 20 seasons, trailing only a 2008 Celtics-matchup in which Boston was -22. Philly big man Nerlens Noel missed his third straight game with a contusion on his right knee. Forward Jerami Grant suffered a right knee injury early and didn't return. Charlotte is 2-0 against Philly this season, winning them by a combined 45 points.
Key trends: The road team is 5-2 ATS in the past seven meetings. The over is 5-2 in those seven.
Early lean: Hornets and over.
Thunder at Pistons (+4, 213)
Oklahoma City was in Toronto on Monday. Wouldn't totally shock me if Kevin Durant or Russell Westbrook got this game off with OKC pretty much locked into the No. 3 seed in the West. Detroit's five-game winning streak ended in a 112-95 home defeat to Atlanta on Saturday. Andre Drummond had 19 points and 17 rebounds in the loss. The Pistons missed their first seven shots from the field and never recovered. Oklahoma City beat visiting Detroit 103-87 on Nov. 27. Durant had 34 points and 13 rebounds. Westbrook had one of his worst games with 14 points and 11 turnovers while fouling out.
Key trends: OKC is 2-5 ATS in the past seven meetings. The over is 7-2 in Detroit's past nine at home.
Early lean: Pistons and over.
Rockets at Cavaliers (TBA)
First of a TNT doubleheader and will have live betting at sportsbooks. Houston lost 104-101 in Indiana on Sunday. James Harden had 34 points. The Rockets were just 7-for-33 from long range. Cleveland won in New York 107-93 on Saturday playing without Kyrie Irving, who was simply resting. LeBron James had his third triple-double of the season with 27 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. He's about to pass Dominique Wilkins for 12th on the NBA's all-time scoring list. Tristan Thompson will presumably play in his 362nd straight game here, which would set the franchise record. Houston lost at home to Cleveland 91-77 on Jan. 15. Irving had 23 points and LeBron 19. The Cavs held the Rockets to a season low in points with just 11 points from Harden on 2-for-10 shooting. Houston had won the previous six meetings.
Key trends: Houston is 2-5 ATS in its past seven in Cleveland. The over is 4-1 in the Cavs' past five overall.
Early lean: Reportedly James will get the night off. Might some other Cavs too? Houston pulls the upset.
Wizards at Warriors (-13.5, 228.5)
Second TNT game with live betting. Washington started a five-game West Coast trip with a 101-88 victory at the Lakers on Sunday. John Wall had 22 points and 13 assists. Monitor Bradley Beal's status here as he took a fall in the first half and had just four points. Markieff Morris missed the game with a strained right calf and is questionable. Golden State won its fourth in a row Sunday, 117-105 against Philadelphia. Klay Thompson had 40 points, his second straight with that many, and Draymond Green his 12th triple-double of the season. It was the Warriors' 53rd straight home win. They joined the 1995-96 and 1996-97 Bulls as the only teams to win at least 66 games in consecutive seasons. The Warriors need to go only 7-2 the rest of the way to set the single-season wins record. These two played a fun game on Feb. 3 in D.C., a 134-121 Warriors win. I remember thinking the Wizards had a chance for the upset then, but Curry went off for 51 points, tying Gilbert Arenas and Michael Jordan for the Verizon Center record. Wall was no slouch, hitting 17-for-25 for 41 points while adding 10 assists.
Key trends: The Wizards are 1-5 ATS in the past six meetings. The over is 5-1 in Washington's past six road games vs. teams with a winning home record.
Early lean: Wizards and over.
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I then have this Jquery code;
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that should fade out each of the elements on click to my knowledge, but it's only fading out the first element, if i click the next elements button's nothing happens.
I don't have extensive JQuery knowledge to understand why this is happening.

A: Ids must be unique, use classes instead.
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A long time ago, a woman and her very hungry family found several old roots laying on a dirt path leading into the village. "Pick up that onion," said the mother to her son. He did. That night, in despair, the woman knew she only had a little bread, some cheese and a few onions to feed her family. But she also knew soup was the best way to fill their stomachs, and decided to boil the onion, with a little salt, and bones and blood from a pig. Several hours later the soup was ready; she poured her concoction into their bowls. She melted the cheese in the hot liquid and told them to dip the bread in the sauce.
This was the night French Onion Soup was born. Such simple and humble beginnings.
That original family was root to a large family tree that eventually spanned all continents and thousands of people. How do we know this? Her original onion soup recipe, passed down several generations, was the common thread. As each generation experimented, the eventual recipe matured. Time, however, lost the recipe, but for many years the family continued to tell the story of their great ancestor's onion soup. The clock ticked. Memories faded. And the story was told no more, but the legend remained.
Then one spring day in 1952, a family descendant went to France to bury his mother, and among the many boxes that contained her precious earthly belongings, he found a very old, locked wooden box. With no key, he placed it with all the belongings to be shipped to his new home on Long Island, NY in America. Many more decades passed when his son eventually found the box among his father's memories, and took it with him to Buffalo, NY. And it was in the winter of 1987 he opened it. The box was packed with folded and yellowing, fragile pieces of paper.
The man dared not touch the delicate paper in the box, as they were close to total disintegration. So he invited a curator friend to share a bottle of wine and help him discover if treasures might be waiting. At the very least, they would drink good wine and have a few laughs.
A curator has an instinct for things that tell a story, and this curator had a keen sense. Before he finished his first glass of wine, he told his friend that unfolding and documenting the contents had to be done correctly, lest they'd be destroyed in the process. Excitedly, he took the box and its contents to a technician at an old art museum and began the process of discovery.
Months passed, and one night, the curator came to visit. He had a stack of printed sheets with copies of the original papers, transcripts of what was written and of course, the box. Together, the men traveled centuries back in time, reading personal letters to Paul-Henri, from his mother, Marie-Brielle. In total there were 63 letters speaking of life on a farm in Châlons-sur-Marne in eastern France, the day-to-day tales, the struggle to survive. Several letters wrote of the gossip of the day but many described wonderful stories, encouraging her son to pass these memories to his generation and beyond. As their journey ended that evening, the curator removed the the last document, a recipe, a secret family recipe, simply titled 'la soupe a l'oignon'.
He was astonished. Although the man loved cooking, he had only heard tidbits from his family in France about a mythical onion soup recipe. Folklore. Legend. There was no more to it than that. But now, from a piece of paper dating back to July of 1711, he had a connection, reading the words represented by the fading ink her quill had deposited on the a piece of paper. He knew there was only one way to find out if this was the real thing. And that was to cook.
The man decided to try what was written, and by applying modern ingredients to match the old instructions, he practiced the ancient recipe. After much trial and error, the most incredibly delicious onion soup came to life again. Over the years his onion soup became famous within his family, and several well known restaurants in Chicago and New York City licensed its use. Those restaurants, recently closed, gave him an opportunity to share this with the world, and so we invite you to join the adventure.
Now, after revealing the story of the secret box to the entire family, we share with you the recipe for The Best Onion Soup In The World and the wonderful tales of Marie-Brielle.
Welcome to my site... my name is Charlie d'Estries; it was my father who went to France to bury his mother. Several hundred years ago my Very Great Grandmother (~10 generations ago), Marie-Brielle, wrote down a recipe that eventually became The Best Onion Soup In The World. Along with her spirit I welcome you to my onion soup adventure. If you have traveled to the great restaurants of Chicago and New York in the 1990s, chances are you have tasted this incredible soup; it is quite memorable. Over time you'll start seeing several variations I have perfected that I think Marie-Brielle would have really enjoyed... soups based on her basic recipe: potato-onion, leek-onion, broccoli-onion, tomato-onion and garlic-onion (keep an eye out for them; they're coming soon). So sign up for our Onion Soup Heaven Bulletins and when we have something new you'll be the first to know.
I welcome you to watch my videos (but you need to sign up first :), read a few of Marie-Brielle's tales (coming soon!) and of course, share our recipes with your family and friends.
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Mathematical Movies, Stop-motion and a Countdown to the Finale in Space.
My journey begins with a train from Brussels Central Station to Leuven. De Klare Bron and De Grasmus is a federation of two schools led by one headteacher, Begga Willems. I begin the...
Creating digital content; interactive textbooks; analysing spaced learning and flipped classrooms.
My second visit is over an hour by aeroplane from Bologna to the 'heel' of Italy in Brindisi. (the climate is completely different and the sun is shining!) ITIS...
Libraries, learning spaces and a mobile curriculum.
Istituto Comprensivo di Cadeo is a federation of two schools that are within two towns near Piacenza with a 10-15 minute drive between. In each of the two towns of Pontenure and ...
Collaborating through E-Twinning; Animated Fairy-Tales and the Lego Challenge.
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Take One Finland - Lights, Camera, Action
My first visit in Finland was to Wäinö Aaltonen School on the island of Hirvensalo, near Turku. This is a primary school and provides education for approximately 450 students from 7-13...
Getting Mobile and Making Cartoons for Language Learning.
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Dr E Beneṧe School is my first visit in the Czech Republic. Set in the suburbs of Prague in an area called Zscakovice, the school has 751 pupils from 6-15 years and is classified as a...
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At Broadclyst Academy , one of the other dominant features was the different types of classroom space available and it soon became apparent that over the years, the head teacher and the team...
Link observation visits schedule 2013
UK: 12 June and 27 June
Czech Republic: 16 September
Finland: 23 September
France: 30 September
Norway: 14 October
Italy: 21 October
Cyprus: 11 November
Belgium: 18 November
Portugal: 13 January 2014
Ireland: 20 January 2014
Austria: 27 January 2014
Lithuania: 10 February 2014
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Istituto Comprensivo di Cadeo is a federation of two schools that are within two towns near Piacenza with a 10-15 minute drive between. In each of the two towns of Pontenure and Roveleto there is a pre-primary, primary and lower secondary school. The primary school children go to school from 8.30am- 4.30pm, but many of the children go home for lunch and go back in the afternoon. The school day is 8am-1pm Monday to Saturday for the Lower Secondary Students, but on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 2pm and 4pm the school operates "learning labs" to provide additional learning activities.
My morning begins with a tour of the school and in Pontenure there is one main building, but at the back, this is being extended, with several new classrooms being developed. The new classroom areas are all currently open with no doors, no furniture and no students, this area is not due to open for a number of weeks, but there are still some key decisions to be made about what learning should look like. There is evidently several key staff working across both schools, who have built their knowledge over many years to consider how the physical learning space is critical to the learning and teaching.
If you had the opportunity to design a new classroom what would it look like?
What technologies would you include in a new school? What would you omit?
Are there particular types of furniture that you would include in a new classroom?
How can you involve the students in changing the design of learning spaces?
What is the role of the teacher in a newly designed space?
This morning, I am invited to observe Mathematics with Daniela Porro, a leading teacher in the Creative Classrooms Lab project. Daniela has divided the class into groups of four with each of the students taking a different role in the group.
1. Photographer
2. Secretary
3. Controller – Checking the time and making sure everyone is on task
4. 'Relatore' who will "Retell" the activity to everyone else
Two additional students have also documented the work of all the groups. Each group has a 'toolkit' of resources for the lesson and a worksheet. The students have to create quadrilaterals using paper and paper fasteners. The students then have to work out the properties and features of the quadrilaterals. Each student has access to his or her own tablet. The teacher suggests several apps that the students might use to work during the lesson including Pic collage, Educreations, Haiku Deck and PDF master. The lesson is 60 minutes, and the students will have approximately 35 minutes to complete the cooperative task. In the plenary activity, each group will present their work. Whilst the teacher has given the students some advice about the apps to choose, the content of the lesson remains focussed on the Mathematics. The students support one another with the apps. One student records the student clipping together the paper using the paper fasteners and giving a commentary on the mathematics. It is important that the students have the concrete materials to handle. Another student recreates the shapes using Educreations whilst the final student takes photographs and records the key points using Pic collage. The teacher is able to go around each group and ask questions to further the mathematical knowledge. The students remain active and engaged throughout the lesson with each group producing very different styles of presentation. The teacher can also ask the two additional students who are responsible for capturing the whole lesson to include certain points of the lesson. The teacher has divided the students into mixed ability groups and today she has selected particular students to complete the role of Secretary and Reteller as she will assess their progress. The final job for each group is to capture a photograph of the whole group to show who has worked on the task.
What opportunities do you provide for your students to have an individual role in the group task?
How can you use particular technologies and applications to support group work?
How do you assess the individual progress of students using group tasks?
What are the benefits of cooperative learning?
In September 2013, the school initiated the 'Libr@ project' across the federation of schools; this has equipped every 11-12 year old with their own iPad to take home. Parents are paying for the iPad, with different options available at different prices to equip the students with their "Learning Rucksack". Each family also pays 10 euros per year and some of that money is used towards ebooks. The parents are supportive because there is a substantial difference between the previous price of students having only textbooks and the students now having access to the technology too. The school is Wi-Fi enabled throughout and the school diary is online for all the staff and students. Every class has a virtual classroom on the register where the teacher can add the work for today.
How can digital books move forward learning and teaching?
What additional funding can schools use to support the purchase of technologies?
How can current funding be used to support the development of learning spaces?
What places have you visited that have inspired the development of the classrooms or learning spaces in your school? #lsl_eu
Can the students in your school access the lesson materials on line?
At the heart of both schools is the library equipped with an extensive range of books and DVDs. In Roveleto, the library is open to the school community for 40 hours per week with a dedicated member of staff. The library is open after school hours and also on Saturday mornings. The school has looked at the 10 rights of the reader by Daniel Pennac to inform their thinking about the library. Each group of students goes to the library for at least one hour per week. Authors have been in to meet with the students. 13,000 people can borrow up to 4 books each. Parents can use the computers and printer in the library. The library is also a centre of distribution for assistive technologies for disabled people in the community, with 2000 objects available for borrowing, including both hardware and software.
How important is the library in your school?
To what extent is the library used for different parts of the curriculum?
What resources do you have available in school that could be shared with your local community?
Is there additional funding available for you to support community activity during and beyond the school day?
Later in the morning, we travel to Roveleto. In this school, the library has been adapted to include a social learning space on two levels. Downstairs students can sit at a table, but upstairs there are large cushions (iPuffs) for the students to work more informally. There is a large digital screen which the students and teachers can connect to. Teachers have to book this space for lessons. This space demonstrates that mobile technologies allow the students to work differently; they are free to move and work how they want to. It becomes even more important for the teacher to consider the learning outcomes and the differentiation; the teacher can give the students more freedom to make decisions about what they learn. (There is no paper, pens or notebooks) In today's lesson, the students are researching the significance of 4th November in Italy, (Armed Forces Day in Italy), but also comparing this to different nationalities. This is one of a series of "labs" which the student can opt to attend during the afternoon. This particular lab is focussed on History and Technology, however during the afternoon I visit labs for gardening (repairing and painting the outdoor furniture), Music (learning Do-Re-Mi from The Sound of Music), Guitar, Theatre, Cookery, (making pumpkin cake – very seasonal, and it tastes delicious!) & Science and Technology (exploring how to demonstrate the amount of air in a bottle using an egg). Each 'learning zone' has small groups of approximately 15-20 students. In each classroom there is a noticeable air of involvement, because the students have chosen to participate in these sessions.
Do you have learning activities in school that the students can choose as an option?
How can you use technology to make links between subjects?
What are the benefits of allowing students to 'record' sections of the lesson using either video or photographs?
How has your timetable been organised to encourage innovation and creativity?
The most recent classroom to open in Roveleto is the 'Mondrian Sulle Pere'; here the new furniture is mobile and brightly coloured. The tables are various shapes and can be moved and interconnected to make different groups. Nothing is static and everything can be easily adapted by the teachers and the students for the learning activities. This shows that as the school is continually trying to progress the learning of the students, the use of technology has been interwoven into these spaces, rather than 'bolted on'.
In this school the developments have been continuous over a number of years. There is a direct connection between the changes to the learning spaces and the integration of technology. There are also key staff who work together to ensure cohesion and to encourage others to recognise that students can now learn differently.
So, as I board the flight from Bologna to Brindisi; (on the heel of Italy) I know that mainstreaming the use of technology in teaching is not as easy as buying soft cushions, new furniture and mobile devices, it is incredibly complex and requires constant reflection by a team of innovators in school. However opening up the dialogue and conversation across the school about effective use of learning spaces should be seen as fundamental to the role of any successful school leader. (Libraries, learning spaces and laboratories are high on the agenda, along with the mobile technologies!)
In the LSL project, we are trying to encourage the teachers to capture videos that highlight the use of technology in school, and to demonstrate the progress. You can find out more about this school here.
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Dr. Peter B. Baute, of Block Island and Wakefield, R.I., died at home on April 4, 2020, at the age of 86. He was the beloved husband of Cynthia (Cindy) Baute.
Peter was born in Providence, R.I., on July 27, 1934, to Helen Bruckner Baute and Joseph A. Baute, MD. He was a graduate of Lockwood High School and the University of New Hampshire. After receiving his medical degree from the Hahnemann School of Medicine in Philadelphia in 1960, he completed a fellowship in tropical medicine at Gorgas Memorial Laboratory in Panama. He then served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps from 1961 to 1964, spending two years in South Vietnam and one at the Newport R.I. Naval Hospital. Peter pursued his Residency in General Surgery at Wayne State University Hospitals in Detroit, serving as Chief Resident from 1968 to 1969. He was Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Peter joined the staff of Kent County Memorial Hospital in 1968, where he was Assistant Chief of Surgery from 1979 to 1981 and Chief of Surgery from 1981 to 1984. With Doctors Arthur Hardy and Richard Dyer, they formed Toll Gate Surgical Associates, Inc. Their practice expanded to include doctors Daniel Reardon, David Luz, Candace Dyer and John Isaac. Peter was the managing partner of Toll Gate Associates, a medical office building partnership.
Throughout his career, Peter engaged extensively in research, teaching, and professional leadership. He published journal articles on breast cancer research in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics and Radiology, and delivered numerous presentations on cancer care. He twice directed American College of Surgeons (ACS) courses on cancer management and served as state chairman for the ACS Commission on Cancer. He chaired the Kent County Hospital Cancer Committee and developed a model community cancer program that received accreditation by the ACS Commission on Cancer. He was President of the Providence Surgical Society from 1985 to 1986, served on the Executive Committee of the New England Surgical Society, and was a Cancer Program Surveyor for the Commission on Cancer. Peter also volunteered on surgical teams in Honduras and Nepal. In retirement, he was a volunteer physician at the Rhode Island Free Clinic for eight years.
Peter determined that he would stop doing surgery when he turned 65 and he did, but he could not give up the practice of medicine. Instead, in 2001 he accepted a position as Co-Medical Director at Block Island Health Services. For many years, Pete had covered for island doctors on leave. He and Cindy had fallen in love with Block Island and built a home there. He confessed to a friend that retooling from surgery to primary care was a major challenge in late career, but he loved getting to know each patient, their family members, even their pets, a few of which were also seen "professionally" in emergencies.
After retiring in 2006, Peter completed the University of Rhode Island's Master Gardening Program and volunteered at the Roger Williams Botanical Gardens. He was elected to the New Shoreham Town Council in 2006 and served for three terms where he successfully championed the wind farm and expanded solar power on the island. His passionate efforts to create bike paths on the island did not come to fruition but he retained hope in that quest.
In addition to his wife Cindy, Peter is survived by siblings, Joseph Baute and his wife Stephanie, Barbara Dowd, MD, and Robert Baute, MD, and his wife Barbara J. Baute. He was predeceased by brother-inlaw, Thomas Dowd, MD, and sister-in- law, Cynthia F. Baute. Peter is also survived by four children, Linda Crosette, Peter Baute, Jr., Barbara Baute, and Michael Baute, six grandchildren, several nieces and nephews, and by Cindy's daughters, Kimberly Cardarelli and Jennifer Koziol and grandson Colby Cardarelli.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated when it is possible for family and friends to gather.
Pete will be remembered for his sharp powers of observation and analysis, his quiet wit, his dedication to public service and his devotion to the promotion of health care in a wide range of settings. In 2018, Block Island Health Services established an endowment for the Peter Baute Award to recognize individuals who demonstrate the traits that are Peter's legacy: exceptional interpersonal skills and compassion coupled with a high level of acumen in delivering healthcare on Block Island and also to support health education and research advancing knowledge and awareness of wellness on Block Island. Memorial gifts may be directed to Block Island Health Services, Box 919, Block Island, R.I. 02807 or to the Rhode Island Free Clinic, 655 Broad Street, Providence, R.I. 02907. For guest book and condolences, please visit averystortifuneralhome.com.
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So the other day I was wondering whether I could take the meaning of 'pound cake' to a whole new level and invent a cake recipe that you can make for £1. This is the first successful attempt at making a pound cake for a pound. I started with a recipe by joy of baking that I use as my go-to lemon-drizzle cake, and changed some things around to make it cheaper and more environmentally friendly.
If you live in the UK like us, lemons are expensive and are imported from southern Europe or even further afield. So in order to save some cash and some food miles, we used exclusively lemon juice in this recipe. Bottled lemon juice is a good alternative, since the bottles are more efficient to transport than fresh lemons. You could also use lime juice and grate some zest into the batter if you have a lime handy. We also used vegetable oil instead of butter, which is cheaper, avoids animals getting involved in the production process, has no saturated fat and tastes just as good! And don't let the humble looks of this cake deceive you – it is absolutely delicious! We whip this up before parties and it always gets devoured within minutes. The secret is the lemon-syrup that you drizzle over the cake to make it moist and tangy.


So, it's happening. Even with a last-minute rebellion from the House of Lords, sometime in the new few weeks (no one is being too specific on the date; but it could be imminent), Article 50 will be triggered. The UK will begin the process of leaving the European Union.
No matter what your political opinion on the subject, there's no doubt it's going to have a big impact on everyone in the country. If you're worried about the impact on your finances, then you might have reason to be – or everything might work out okay. The key point is that no one really knows. So to try and allay some of those fears, let's crack on.
The Leave side of the campaign dubbed it "Project Fear"; others said it was simple statement of fact. Some of the predictions of what would happen to the UK – both in terms of businesses and impacts on personal households – outside of the EU were terrifying indeed: imminent recession, a threat to trade, an isolationist policy and a massive financial risk for the country.
But it might not happen. In fact, it's unlikely. It played into the hands of the Remain campaign to talk about the worst-case scenario (and to an extent, they had to – that was their role). But the government and Bank of England will take steps to mitigate the damage where necessary – they're not going to sit back and let things spiral out of control. Brexit is happening; everyone has to manage it.
If you are worried about the imminent impact on your life, then don't – Article 50 is only the starting bell for negotiations to leave the EU. The full process takes up to two years. So don't panic yet.
However, do use this interim period to shore up your finances. Savings are always a good idea, but look at your utilities, your insurance. Analyse every single monthly outgoing from the mundane like your Netflix package through fuels like red diesel and right up to how the industry you work in might be affected. The latter are mentioned as a pertinent point: you might worry about your personal finances, but businesses stand to be impacted too – so don't ignore them from your thinking.
Play a long game of "what if…?" and then see if you can take action to calm some of the concerns you identify. No stone should be left unturned.
As a general rule, keep your options open, save where you can, and follow political developments.
Okay, so there might be the occasional bellicose thundering from an EU member state about how the UK's future doesn't concern them – but it's not reality. The UK doesn't want to flounder and the EU, ultimately, doesn't either. We're still going to be a huge trading partner and an important player on the global scene. So if you feel the fear rise, remember that it's in everyone's best interests to get through this with the best deal possible.
In essence: it's scary, but with pre-planning and a cool head, you're going to be okay.


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The Great Race (1965)
Blake Edwards' wildly extravagant paean to slapstick humor is excessive, overlong… and absolutely wonderful. The premise involves an early 20th century New York-to-Paris road race viewed through the delicious prism of a classic rivalry: Tony Curtis as the white-suited hero The Great Leslie, and Jack Lemmon — complete with black cape and twirlable mustache — as Professor Fate.
Edwards and his co-scenarist Arthur A. Ross add an "emancipated" female reporter (Natalie Wood, reportedly in personal misery during filming but ravishingly beautiful, fast-talking, and quite funny);
a Prisoner of Zenda sub-plot featuring Lemmon in a very fey second role;
and a plethora of marvelous comedians adding diamond-bright cameos and supporting performances: Keenan Wynn, Vivian Vance, Arthur O'Connell, Larry Storch, Ross Martin, George MacCready, Dorothy Provine and, as Lemmon's sidekick Max, the matchless Peter Falk. ("Push… the button, Max!")
Lemmon gave far better performances in much greater movies, but — aside from Some Like it Hot — he was never funnier than he is here. His timing is perfection itself, and he gets more out of a single raised eyebrow than most comedians can squeeze from a roomful of props. A two-part television airing of The Great Race on successive Sunday nights was my introduction to Lemmon, at age 11. I thought he was the cat's pajamas. I still do.
Interestingly, and appropriately, the sound effects were provided by the great Warner Bros. Cartoons editor Treg Brown, who won an Oscar; listen carefully and you'll hear Brown's trademark "voice" throughout. (A torpedo is one sequence bears more than a passing aural resemblance to the sounds that herald the appearance of the Tasmanian Devil.) The score, naturally for an Edwards's movie, is by Henry Mancini, with lyrical assists from Johnny Mercer.
Blake Edwards demonstrating the science of throwing pies. His guinea pig is Natalie Wood. Jack Lemmon said of the massive pie-fight which climaxes the Prisoner of Zenda sub-plot that the first couple of takes were fun; after that, it began to feel like being hit in the face with sacks of wet cement.
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Through cowardice, we shall all be saved: "The Americanization of Emily" (1964)


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Why MS-13 is a campaign issue in Rep. Comstock's race for reelection
Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.), left, and State Sen. Jennifer Wexton (D-Loudon). (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post and AP)
Jenna Portnoy
Reporter covering Virginia, Maryland and D.C. congressional delegations
July 27, 2018 at 6:52 PM EDT
The threat of the transnational criminal gang MS-13 has become an issue in the hotly contested race between Rep. Barbara Comstock (R) and Democratic challenger Jennifer Wexton in Northern Virginia, where the gang is responsible for high-profile slayings.
Wexton this week accused Comstock of "fearmongering and race-baiting" for pushing legislation that would allow the federal government to deport immigrants on the suspicion of gang activity and fund task forces aimed at rooting out the gang.
In response, Comstock said Wexton, a state senator and former prosecutor, was "out of touch" with the gang problem and its victims.
The exchange suggests MS-13 will be used as a political tactic in the congressional race as it was in the 2017 governor's race between Gov. Ralph Northam (D) and Republican Ed Gillespie, and by GOP Senate nominee Corey Stewart and President Trump.
Trump has used the resurgence of MS-13 in the United States as one reason for his crackdown on immigration and has called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), an "MS-13 lover."
The street gang known as MS-13, which stands for Mara Salvatrucha, was formed in Los Angeles in the 1980s by Salvadorans who had fled violence and civil conflict in their home country.
It has operated in the U.S. for decades, but violence surged in recent years in Virginia and Maryland communities surrounding the District as well as in Long Island, Boston and Houston. Law enforcement officers have linked the gang to dozens of killings.
Trump last month signed a bill sponsored by Comstock that devotes $50 million to gang task forces, including one in Northern Virginia. Reps. Gerald E. Connolly and Don Beyer, both Virginia Democrats who support Wexton, voted for the measure.
In September, the House passed a bill sponsored by Comstock that would expand the authority of the federal government to deport or detain noncitizen immigrants who are gang members or suspected of gang activity.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the American Civil Liberties Union slammed the bill, although four members of the Hispanic caucus supported it. Critics said it would promote racial profiling, erode due process and unintentionally affect others, such as clergy, who try to help gang members. It has not gotten a vote in the Senate.
Fact Checker: Are there more than 2,000 MS-13 gang members in Virginia's wealthy Fairfax County?
Wexton on Tuesday night kicked off an effort to rally Latino support.
"For Barbara Comstock, the Latino community is nothing more than MS-13," Wexton said at the event, according to Think Progress, a project of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress.
"That's the legislation she's patroned. That's the Republican playbook. That's what we saw in 2017 races. That's what we've seen with their pandering and fearmongering and race-baiting," she continued.
Comstock responded with a lengthy statement that lists the names of MS-13 victims "beaten, stabbed and shot to death." It marks the first time since the June 12 primary that the congresswoman has directly challenged Wexton.
"Wexton's outrageous statements show how out-of-touch she is with the violent MS-13 gang threat and the victims they brutally target," Comstock campaign manager Susan Falconer said in the statement.
In response, Wexton said as a prosecutor she went after child abusers and as a lawmaker she has made it easier to prosecute sex offenders. She accused Comstock of supporting Trump's agenda.
"Instead of standing up to Trump, Comstock is embracing his type of lies and fear, because she's terrified of talking about her record," Wexton campaign manager Ray Rieling said in a statement that listed donations Comstock has taken from the National Rifle Association.
Early this year, Comstock challenged Trump at the White House over his desire to shut down the government to force a compromise on her legislation to curtail the gang.
Comstock, who is running in a district Trump lost by 10 points, has worked to distance herself from the president in hopes of appealing to independents and moderate voters, despite an almost perfect record of voting with her party. The 10th Congressional District is among the most diverse in the state; Hispanic residents make up about 14 percent of the population, according to census data.
Stephen J. Farnsworth, a political scientist at the University of Mary Washington, said Trump's anti-Latino stance hurts Comstock because, polls show, first-generation Americans feel an affinity for other marginalized groups. "Barbara Comstock would like to convert the anti-immigration issue to a law-and-order issue, which tends to be firmer ground for Republicans," he said. "Whether that pivot will be effective will be up to the voters."
Her exchange with Wexton echoes a debate that has played out in elections in Virginia and across the nation. In the 2017 governor's race, Gillespie ran ads that called Northam "weak on MS-13" and flashed images of tattooed Latino men and the gang motto "Kill, Rape, Control."
Northam accused Gillespie of "fearmongering," and a Latino group supporting Northam aired an ad titled "American Nightmare" that depicts a pickup truck with a Gillespie sticker and Confederate flag, chasing minority children.
Farnsworth said it will be tough for Comstock to establish herself as separate from Trump on the issue of MS-13 when the president dominates news coverage.
"This is a challenge Republicans all around the country are facing," he said. When trying to talk about issues important to their districts "they're speaking into a windstorm."


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A portion of Tyson & Mendes' work — as well as its trial experience — involves general tort litigation, including personal injury defense in cases arising out of automobile accidents and premises liability matters. Our automobile defense work covers the spectrum, from soft tissue injuries to catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases.
We also specialize in defending "damages only" cases. These cases have included admitted liability wrongful death matters and catastrophic injury cases with multi-million dollar demands against some of the foremost plaintiff's attorneys in the country.
In addition to the defense of insureds for several leading international insurance companies, Tyson & Mendes has directly represented numerous manufacturers, dealers, trucking companies, national automobile and trucking rental companies, and other transportation and corporate clients. We have also been involved in the investigation and defense of fraudulent automobile insurance claims.
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Jury Awards Full Defense Verdict in $22 Million Airport Shuttle Case: Tyson & Mendes Law Firm Successfully Defends Airline Coach Service, Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO (April 18, 2019) – Following a 5-week jury trial, a San Francisco County jury on April 18, 2019, found an airport shuttle service and one of its drivers not liable for injuries the plaintiff alleged he suffered while riding on an airport shuttle. Attorneys in Tyson & Mendes LLP's Northern California office, Partner Jim Sell and Senior Counsel Brian Johnson, represented the two defendants and secured a full defense verdict in a case in which the injured plaintiff sought $22 million in damages. "We successfully framed this trial around responsibility," Mr. Sell said. "By acknowledging and accepting our client's responsibility for providing accessible safety features in our vehicles, we exposed plaintiff's refusal to accept any of his own responsibility for his injuries."
Jury Awards Full Defense Verdict in $7.4 Million Multi-car Accident Case: Tyson & Mendes Law Firm Successfully Defends Chino Hills Ford
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (April 17, 2019) – Following a three-week trial, a San Bernardino County jury on April 10, 2019, found Chino Hills Ford not liable for a serious car accident which allegedly caused seizures to a child. Tyson & Mendes LLP attorneys Kristi Blackwell and Christopher Schon represented Chino Hills Ford and secured a full defense verdict in which the injured plaintiff sought more than $7.4 million in damages.
You Rear-Ended Someone on the Highway? Legally it is Your Fault, Right? "Not Always" Says California Court of Appeal
Author: Raymond K. Wilson Jr. | August 6, 2018 9:00am
The scene: You are driving down the highway in the slow lane, and two cars merge onto the highway in front of you. The car closest to you is tailgating the one ahead of it when the front car slams on its brakes for no discernable reason and then drives away. The car directly ahead of you hits its brakes, too, and you cannot stop in time before hitting it.
Pressing Pause: Vehicular Manslaughter Criminal Prosecutions and Simultaneous Wrongful Death Suits
Author: Katie Greenbaum | July 9, 2018 9:00am
A variety of criminal acts can be the basis of civil suits for damages. When defending a civil action with potential criminal charges, or an unresolved criminal case, defense handling can get complicated. Specifically, when a civil plaintiff notices the deposition of a defendant who potentially risks self-incrimination. Often, motor vehicle-related deaths result with both a criminal prosecution for vehicular manslaughter and a civil suit for wrongful death. In light of potential criminal charges, it is critical for civil defense counsel to monitor the statute of limitations and delay the civil action accordingly.
Arizona Choice of Law Provision: UM/UIM Claims
Author: Sitar Bhatt | July 30, 2017 10:09am
Arizona is a popular destination for out of state residents to enjoy the beauty and warmth the state has to offer. We especially see an increase in visitors from October to May. Many of these individuals stay in Arizona for a period of multiple months. Unfortunately, some experience an auto accident during their stay in Arizona. Typically, the out of state resident maintains an auto insurance policy issued in their home state. As a part of their policy, they may have personal insurance protection ("PIP") or medical payments coverage. Under these coverages, the carrier will likely pay for the initial medical expenses or other losses that may qualify due to the accident. Also, the visitor may settle with the other driver involved, and depending on the damages, file an uninsured ("UM") or underinsured motorist claim ("UIM").
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import org.docksidestage.hangar.dbflute.cbean.MemberCB;

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